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As some of you may or may not know, i will be moving soon, as i currently house share, the house bills arent my responsibility, but in my new pad it will be just me again!! YAY!
Anyway, the main things i am interested in are house insurance, who are you guys with and how much to do you pay for what cover?
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Telephone/broadband/sky - what is the best package?
Anyway, the main things i am interested in are house insurance, who are you guys with and how much to do you pay for what cover?
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Telephone/broadband/sky - what is the best package?
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Tesco's for house insurance £15 fully covered art work, guns, watchs the lot, edited to say that is contents as we rent at the moment
Sky broadband and phone with Sky TV and lot of packages £43 a month
Hope that helps
Becarefull as Tesco use RBS but RBS are more expensive on there own
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Sky broadband and phone with Sky TV and lot of packages £43 a month
Hope that helps
Becarefull as Tesco use RBS but RBS are more expensive on there own
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home ins with the AA buildings and contents on a semi detached 3 bed room house,£60,000 cover on the contents with accidental damage,new for old, everything in my deed boundrys,with shed contents cover plus loads of other stuff £26.00 per month.
Telephone/broadband is with Virgin (or NTL as they were known) and have got a lot better at what the do nowadays.
Phoneline+10mg broardband cost about £27.00 for both inc line rentals and a small phone bill,which really dont count cos we all got mobiles.
i personaly wouldnt use sky for phone or broardband as my mate has BB and its a real pain in the ass, many complications after 6 months with ONLY a 62kb download speed.
Sky basic package £20something a month.
Telephone/broadband is with Virgin (or NTL as they were known) and have got a lot better at what the do nowadays.
Phoneline+10mg broardband cost about £27.00 for both inc line rentals and a small phone bill,which really dont count cos we all got mobiles.
i personaly wouldnt use sky for phone or broardband as my mate has BB and its a real pain in the ass, many complications after 6 months with ONLY a 62kb download speed.
Sky basic package £20something a month.
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ive got virgin media broadband, cable and phone had them for 5 years only had 1 problem the hd box is the nuts can record 2 channels and watch a 3rd
so far 3 of my friends have switched from sky
so far 3 of my friends have switched from sky
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Yes you do, which normally is quite expensive to have a line installed but we did have someone knock on the door when iwas out who said we could have the line put in for £25 odd, their very much similar tbh depends what u prefer really, the only major difference really is virgin being fibre optic their broadband is technically better but i know loads of ppl on BT too with no probs so!
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Yes you do, which normally is quite expensive to have a line installed but we did have someone knock on the door when iwas out who said we could have the line put in for £25 odd, their very much similar tbh depends what u prefer really, the only major difference really is virgin being fibre optic their broadband is technically better but i know loads of ppl on BT too with no probs so!
'most' of the houses i have seen already have the line there! They will just need to be reactivated!
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If you are not into sports have a look at Btvision. I have the complete bb/phone/tv package and its £37 a month. not good for sports but the mrs/kids love it,whole series of soaps/dramas/kids stuff that you can watch one after the other! Bt did me a deal(new house so no bt line valid) and charged £25 instead of £125 for connection,free btvision box,hub and 2 phones.
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If you've an Orange contract phone, then you can get wireless broadband for £5 a month. My mobile is only £20 so £25 for both ain't bad. And the BT normal £11pm of course.
Freeview is best. How much do you need to flick through and say "that's crap" "that's crap" ? lol
My House & Contents is with Sheilas wheels of all places.. Just go through http://www.moneysupermarket.com/home/ and see which best suits for your needs.
Freeview is best. How much do you need to flick through and say "that's crap" "that's crap" ? lol
My House & Contents is with Sheilas wheels of all places.. Just go through http://www.moneysupermarket.com/home/ and see which best suits for your needs.
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This isn't any use to you Maria but could be useful for somebody else and it's fairly relevant. BT are actually offering FREE BT LINE INSTALLATION at the moment until 30th June 2009.
More info here: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/dea...e-installation
More info here: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/dea...e-installation
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Maria try via your bank. You might get a good deal from them. I got combined house/buildings and contents for £56 a month. of that £12 a month is the "ultimate reward" account charge which got me a bigger discount as well as the combined both product discount and free AA roadside assistance.
There are some good deals out there, more so for combined packages than just contents, but like most things shop round.
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im paying £40 a month for everything couldnt recomend it enough
its worth it for the menu searching as the current channel becomes smaller in the corner so you can still watch it, none of that hold music and blue screen you get with sky
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its worth it for the menu searching as the current channel becomes smaller in the corner so you can still watch it, none of that hold music and blue screen you get with sky
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I havent exactly found a house yet, viewed 15 in total so far, and have another 7 to see on saturday so i am hoping one of them will be the one! But will be around the Northampton Area!
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I havent exactly found a house yet, viewed 15 in total so far, and have another 7 to see on saturday so i am hoping one of them will be the one! But will be around the Northampton Area!
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one of my "bad" insurance experiences was a fe years ago when a pipe burst in the loft, ruining the cealings of both floors below
we stopped the leak, got it patched up, called the insurance guy
they came bak with a thing to get 2 quotes for the work to fix stuff
both around the £6k mark, cealings, walls, carpet, computer, contents, etc
then the insruance company said that "due to you not alerting us at the time you found out, and therefore, we were unable to send out an approved repairer for the burst pipe, we will not be paying out"
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so watch out for the really teeny tiny small print
we stopped the leak, got it patched up, called the insurance guy
they came bak with a thing to get 2 quotes for the work to fix stuff
both around the £6k mark, cealings, walls, carpet, computer, contents, etc
then the insruance company said that "due to you not alerting us at the time you found out, and therefore, we were unable to send out an approved repairer for the burst pipe, we will not be paying out"
needless to say, i'm banned from that branch of abbey national
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so watch out for the really teeny tiny small print
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All damaged furniture replaced
All new Carpets
Decorated to MY specification with MY chosen workmen with MY chosen materials with all walls being taken back to brick and replastered, and a new ceiling
Electrics sorted and new sockets/swithces/lights to MY spec
New doors, skirting, door frames etc
And enough to cover other sundry stuff we accrued like phone calls to sort out the quotes and additional power used drying the house out.
Got what I asked for down to the penny ( admittedly it was a pain and I had to keep refusing their offers, but in the end I demanded a loss adjuster to be involved and it was resolved very quickly after that )
Without a decent policy it would have ruined our lives as I couldnt have found the £20k needed repair the house.
Well worth spending some time over
I think our policy was about £250 a year building and contents and we have a few named items on there too like engagement ring, my bikes etc which are all covered off premises.
Take your time looking at policies Maria
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